"The likelihood of this becoming a human issue is slim," says Tony Moehr with the Jasper County Health Department. "It's not zero, but it's slim."

Moehr says while the USDA and Missouri Department of Agriculture investigate the turkey infections, local health officials will monitor farm workers who have had contact with the birds.

"Typical flu-like symptoms you would expect to see with influenza," says Moehr.

The Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy says the turkeys will be depopulated through controlled marketing, a strategy that allows turkeys with low pathogenic forms of the virus to move to market on a limited basis. Until that process completes...

"No one in the general public who doesn't have access to those particular birds really has a concern," says Moehr.

The World Organization for Animal Health reports two more commercial poultry farms within about six miles of where the infection was found tested negative for influenza. The Missouri Department of Agriculture has not returned our phone call for comment on this story.